Some (un-comprehensive) answers to the excessive angst among young people: – Pull back on organized, adult-led activities, and allow kids to organise their own play, setting their own rules. – Parents offer too many compliments to their children. One should praise children for effort and sticking at it – constant praise for everything breeds egotism …
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There has been an inexorable rise in anxiety and depression on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 80 years. These are some of the causes: – an unhealthy preoccupation with fame, money, image and pressure to have sex at far too young an age. This generation is faced with more sexualization and more …
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A few weeks ago the teenage daughter of a friend of a good friend of our took her own life. I don’t know the circumstances, but know she was a troubled child. Something is undermining young people’s mental health, especially that of girls. A study conducted by Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego …
The Governor of Georgia has vetoed a bill supporting the right of religious organisations to refuse services that clash with their faith, e.g with regard to same-sex marriage and the hiring and firing of people of whose private lives they disapprove. This bill is part of the right-wing backlash against the extension of civil rights …
“President Obama’s remarks about human rights to President Castro are best appreciated in the context of the US’s longest-running vacation camp on the island, where visitors get to wear orange jump suits and funky metal jewellery while listening to rock music. So select are the premises that not even top-ranking US citizens are seen residing …
